Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Now we know there’s been a secret society of evil rich men trying to run the world for their own agenda please can there be a secret society of extremely good people who are working to foil their plans and bring them to justice?

I discovered a new vantage point for the murmuration in Limerick and the starlings put on a great show this evening.

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

Elon Musk FRS just doing his best for science

A cloak of shooting stars.💫 Brush wattlebird on the swamp banksia this afternoon. 🪶

Terrific resource on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social: a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I like posting on here so I'm going to use that to help me prepare for my quals. Each week starting next week, I will post 3 threads on things I've learned in developmental biology, neuroscience/computational neuro, & math (mostly stochastic processes), on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday evening.

Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today from @ceidil.bsky.social !

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday to all who celebrate! Here is a nice Short-eared Owl that we found last month in a marsh on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. They are hard to come by.

Good article that applies to other “health influencers” even if they didn’t appear in the Epstein files My rule: be skeptical of anyone’s health advice if they have financial ties to a supplement company

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It should have been called Center for Adanced Fabrication and Sleeze. Duke shutters 3 research centers, including Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight - The Duke Chronicle share.google/uh2cLRY2Xlr6...

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

The entire MAHA and MAGA health movement is about grift

Bezos has rejected multiple offers to buy the paper, and his CEO ignored an offer to spin off the sports and local news sections. The Epstein files provided more support for something we’ve known for quite a while: Rightwing billionaires understand that control of media outlets gives them power.

“We are in a period not of transition but of rupture. Europe will soon be fully responsible for its own security, and we’ll also have to begin thinking much more strategically about how to wield power in the world.” Excellent read:

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Heard an English fella saying that Irish and Jamaicans share some dialect particularities. He said "Like, when they say 'free', they both pronounce it 'tree'". Took me ages to figure out what he was trying to say himself! 😅

#Spéirghorm #Sparegollum #speirgorm

Oh would it now

Michael de Adder

I get frequent emails from people targeted by alt med types like this saying keto/MCFA can reverse Alzheimer’s, which gets people’s hopes up after a horrible diagnosis. Then I have to tell them sorry, no. It’s bullshit. Pisses me off. They just spout bollocks without consequences and people suffer.

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

This stupid lying ignorant piece of shit...

I keep thinking about this tweet.

The files show a long list of storied scientists willing to spend time with Epstein after his 2008 conviction. We wade through ‘muck’ as women in science, everyday. This is the evidence. Whatever their protestations they were entirely comfortable putting the victims to one side for financial gain.

Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases. www.ft.com/content/b474...

I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

Let me rewrite that: Remains of a further 22 infants. They may have been unloved then, but they deserve some respect now.

this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action

"data available upon reasonable request"

application for this phd closes on 10 Feb

In a new piece for @wired.com, @davidgilbert.bsky.social dicusses RFK Jr.’s picks for a new federal autism panel Many of them are extreme kooks & conspiracy theorists who "tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are 'poisoning children'.” Here's what I say in the piece:

What an opportunity...! Like, I'd apply for it if I could in any conceivable way. Alas, I must read something on Roman horse breeding to see if I find a reference.

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

They have to break the automatic deference given to a President, because Trump so clearly doesn't deserve it and thrives on it.

Happy to see our study out! We define the sequence determinants for miRNA-target interactions in flies and provide a foundation for improving computational prediction of miRNA-mediated regulation in Drosophila. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #miRNA, @natcomms.nature.com, @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Peter Attia, physician. 28/ www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/u... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A...